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Beyond our lives on earth…
April 12, 2010 — Welcome to the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery breeding massive star babies.
In this richly detailed infrared image taken by the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory, finger-like pillars of dust can be seen hanging off growing stars. Herschel’s instrumentation has cut through the cool dust that usually obscures this region, highlighting the hot dust inside the stellar nursery.
To the right of the image, there’s a cavity caused by strong stellar winds and intense radiation emanating from the nebula’s massive star cluster (out of shot, to the right of the image) blowing back the dust, compressing it and creating long nebulous fingers. In the tips of these fingers there are a young generation of embryonic stars, sparked to life by the clumping of compressed material.
—Ian O’Neill, Discovery News
Image credit: ESA and the PACS, SPIRE & HSC consortia
